Honorary Canadians

Honorary Canadians

This room is dedicated to the artists who, while not born here, made a meaningful mark on Canadian music. Whether they came to record, perform, collaborate, or simply found inspiration on Canadian soil, these Honorary Canadians became part of the story. Some stayed briefly, others put down roots—but all contributed to the cultural fabric in unique ways. From one-off sessions to lasting legacies, this is a salute to the outsiders who felt right at home in Canada.

Tracks

Artist Track Title
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) (There's a Lot of Different Kind of) People in the World Love Serenade
David Amram The Mountain Song Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Dils* Red Rockers (Les rockers rouge) Made In Canada
Loni Gamble Circles ST
Happy Dolls Hello Dolly Show Album No. 1
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* You're My Honey I'm a Song
Happy Dolls Drum Solo Show Album No. 1
Loni Gamble Nightime Kind of Love ST
Ernie* Smith Oh But If I Skareggae
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Good Time Blues Shirley Lewis Show Band
Matt* Lucas The Peepin' Tom Matt Gets Blue
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Green Power Love Serenade
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) Theme from Canada Love Serenade
Ellen McIlwaine Lazarus Fear Itself
Exponians My Peaceful World Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Country Mcdonald Joe* The March Of The Dead War War War
Ursa Major* Back to the Land ST
Oscar* McLollie Like to Live the Love ST
Cal* Bostic There You Are Introducing...
Jack Holland Sylvia The Eyes of a Dreamer
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* The Boat is Rocking Ukrainian Pops
Doc Holiday* Canadian State of Mind Canadian State of Mind b/w Canadian State of Mind
Buddy Knox Rock Around the Clock ST
Ellen McIlwaine Farther Along We the People
Zambonis* The Greatest Season To Bleed Black and Gold
Joe* Glazer We are Building a New Party A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Cal* Bostic Excessive Love (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Ernie* Smith Money Can't Buy Life Skareggae
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways About It (It's Love) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Jonathan Edwards Blow On Chilly Wind Sailboat
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Halya Carries the Water Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* King of the Cops I'm a Song
Zambonis* Leave Your Stink at the Rink To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine Keep On Everybody Needs It
Oscar* McLollie Help Me Make It Through the Night ST
Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* Bohemian I'm a Song
Jack Millman and the Tempo Orchestra Theme For the Countless And I Love Her
Sidewinders I Like to Dance Flatfoot Hustlin'
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Kolomayka Ukrainian Pops
Dave Gordon & Kay* I Love That Hockey Team I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* I Need You Amist the Black Eyes
Aarons And Ackley* Swanee Song ST
Zambonis* Let's Go Whalers To Bleed Black and Gold
Buddy Knox I'm In Love With You ST
Sidewinders Can't You Feel the Fire Flatfoot Hustlin'
Ellen McIlwaine Can't Find My Way Home Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Black Brows Dark Brown Eyes Ukrainian Pops
Buddy Knox Teasable, Pleasable You ST (mono)
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* O Moon Do Not Shine Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Ellen McIlwaine All to You We the People
Cal* Bostic Somewhere My Love Introducing...
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* You Belong to Me You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)
Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* Can't Eat Shirley Lewis Show Band
Albert Jones* Every Little Thing That I Do The Facts of Life
Charmaines* The One For Me (You Are) Hypnotized b/w The One For Me (promo)
Matt* Lucas Herpes Blues Matt Gets Blue
Happy Dolls Funky Stuff Show Album No. 1
Aarons And Ackley* Sleeping Gypsy ST
Aarons And Ackley* You And I You And I
Aarons And Ackley* Devil Song ST
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Boots Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Dick Marx Orchestra and Choir* Here Come the Hawks Here Come the Hawks b/w Here Come the Hawks (instrumental) (picture sleeve)
Ellen McIlwaine Ain't No Two Ways To It (It's Love) We the People
Earl Lett (Professor Lett and Study) You're Getting Better Love Serenade
Priscilla* Rollins Letter to Mommy & Daddy Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Eddie* Murray Montreal, Canada Blues Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance
Oscar* McLollie As Long As You Care at All So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All
Ellen McIlwaine Pinebo (My Story) Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
David Amram Greasy Spoon Summer Nights, Winter Rain
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Fisherboys Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Underground River We the People
Zambonis* Boom Boom Boom To Bleed Black and Gold
Ellen McIlwaine You May be All I Need Ellen McIlwaine
Cal* Bostic Let It Be Me Introducing...
Albert Jones* Mother Nature The Facts of Life
Joe* Glazer New Democratic Party Train A Douglas For Me (picture sleeve)
Matt* Lucas The Last Song Matt Gets Blue
Ellen McIlwaine I Don't Want to Play Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years
Albert Jones* That's the Way You Lost My Love The Facts of Life
Buddy Knox Rock-a-Billy Walk ST
Hopeton* Lewis Story Book Children Think Positive // Story Book Children
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Bukovynian Dance Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Nelson* Riddle Vancouver Nights British Columbia Suite
Ridni Naspivy Ensemble* Polissian Polka 'Mazury' Ukrainian Folk Dance Collection
Ernie* Smith Everything Crash Skareggae
Priscilla* Rollins Goody Goody Lover's Choice Vol. 1
Exponians The Look of Love Wicked Woman My Peaceful World
Ellen McIlwaine (I Gotta) Ramble Just Like You Ellen McIlwaine
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* A Cossack Beyond the Danube Ukrainian Pops
Ellen McIlwaine Regretting Blues Everybody Needs It
Tony McManus The Maids of Mitchelstown The Maker's Mark (The Dream Guitar Sessions)
Aarons And Ackley* L.A. You And I
Albert Jones* You and Your Love The Facts of Life
Cal* Bostic The Darkest Hour (Cal Bostic) Introducing...
Loni Gamble It's You ST
Nelson* Riddle Government House British Columbia Suite
Kyiv Pops Orchestra* Reapers Harvest Ukrainian Pops
Zambonis* To Bleed Black and Gold To Bleed Black and Gold
Dils* Not Worth It (Ca ne veux pas le pleine) Made In Canada

Ursa Major* - ST

New York, New York, U.S.A.

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Ellen McIlwaine

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel

Nashville, Tennessee, 🇺🇸 → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, 🇺🇸 → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself

Nashville, Tennessee, USA → Kobe, Japan → Atlanta, Georgia → Greenwich Village, New York City, New York, USA → Montréal, Québec → Toronto, Ontario → Calgary, Alberta, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Country Mcdonald Joe* - War War War

Washington, DC, USA

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Amist the Black Eyes

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - You Belong to Me b/w Respect (picture sleeve)

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Shirley Granger (Shirley Fay Lewis)* - Shirley Lewis Show Band

Sicklerville, New Jersey, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Newton, Massachusetts, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Kristine Sparkle (Christine Holmes)* - I'm a Song

Birmingham, England, UK→Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Cal* Bostic - Introducing...

Anniston, Alabama, 🇺🇸→Port Arthur, Ontario, 🇨🇦→Erie, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Aarons And Ackley* - ST

Portland, Oregon, 🇺🇸 (Jim Ackley); Cleveland, Ohio, 🇺🇸 (Chuck Aarons) - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt* Lucas - Matt Gets Blue

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Matt* Lucas - The Old Man b/w I'm Movin' On

Memphis, Tennessee, USA → London, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Tommy Makem - Vancouver b/w Better Times

Keady, County Armagh, Northern Ireland → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸 → Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Dover, New Hampshire, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - ST

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - Chilliwack Valley b/w She's a Child

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Oscar* McLollie - So Pleasing Loving You b/w As Long As You Care at All

Caldwell County, Louisiana → Los Angeles, California, 🇺🇸 → Chilliwack, British Columbia, 🇨🇦 → Oakland, California, 🇺🇸

David Amram - Summer Nights, Winter Rain

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 🇺🇸*

FEATURED

Bluebird* - Country Boy Blues b/w A Good Thing Lost

Mercer Island, Washington, 🇺🇸

FEATURED

Loni Gamble - ST

Philadelphia, 🇺🇸 - Montréal, Québec, 🇨🇦

Dave Gordon & Kay* - I Love That Hockey Team b/w The Fiddler's Widow

Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

FEATURED

Albert Jones* - The Facts of Life

Gary, Indiana, 🇺🇸 - Toronto, Ontario, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Alpha Centauri - ST

Priscilla* Rollins - Lover's Choice Vol. 1

Nassau, Bahamas - Toronto, Ontario

Eddie* Murray - Montreal, Canada Blues b/w Stepping High Dance

FEATURED

Dils* - Made In Canada

San Diego, California, USA - Vancouver, British Columbia, 🇨🇦

FEATURED

Ernie* Smith - To Behold Jah

Kingston, Jamaica - Toronto, Ontario

ST

Ursa Major - ST Side 2

Ursa Major - ST Side 1

Ursa Major - ST BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Honky Tonk Angel

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 02

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel LABEL 01

Ellen McIlwaine - Honky Tonk Angel BACK

Ellen McIlwaine

Up From The Skies: The Polydor Years

Everybody Needs It

We the People

Fear Itself

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - Fear Itself (5)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (8)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (7)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (6)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (4)

Ellen McIlwaine - ST (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (3)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - Everybody Needs It (1)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (2)

Ellen McIlwaine - We the People (1)

War War War

Amist the Black Eyes

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 02

Shirley Granger - Amist the Black Eyes MINT LABEL 01

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